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As a swede and a casual fan of both the books and the films, I'm looking forward to see how this will be received. It does look fantastic though, and even though you only see tidbits, it really have the feel of a cold and empty Sweden that I got when reading the first book.

Oh hell yes. That imigrant song remix is fucking awesome. I still don't know what this series is about. When I heard we were getting a US remake by the same director behind Social Network and Seven with NIN behind the soundtrack again. I refrained from watching the originals. Far as I know this will be an improvement.

okay, so we have Karen O doing an Immigrant Song remix with Trent Reznor for Fincher's adaptation of Dragon Tattoo. I'm surprised my head didn't explode from the sheer, distilled awesomeness of this trailer. This'll probably be awesome as hell considering the talent involved.

So people like me who saw the original film (which was released to 25 non-Scandanavian countries and had a theatrical release here in Canada), liked it, and think an American "remake" or "re-adapation" is unnecessary, not too mention coming far too soon, are "foreign film snobs?"

Also, "The Feel Bad Movie Of Christmas"? What kind of tagline is that?

I'm scandinavian myself. The movies were fine, but particularly the second and third ones were lackluster; they were made for television and were markedly rushed, whereas the first was picturesque. This is opinion of course.

Honestly, I _like_ seeing american adaptations of scandinavian culture. It's very rarely stupid, very rarely a cash in, since these things don't have an american brand name in the first place. In this case, ok, so apparently stieg larson does ring a bell to some, but it's not generally the case. AMC's The Killing is a good example; it's an amazing television series, but the american version has a more poignant narrative with less fan service and overall better characters. Furthermore, a lot of scandinavian culture isn't even our own...it's locked in a dialectic with the inflow of american culture, but it quintessentially relies on tropes from both scandinavian and american culture, and you can tell that it often simply isn't the real thing. Particularly violence is hard to do so it looks like what comes out of america, even when it doesn't.

For this reason, and many others, american reinvisioning of the culture I'm a part of is a _good_ thing. It might not serve to broaden american tastes much, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the product that comes out of it.

Of course...if this is a _cash in_, then that's completely different, but so far as I can tell, it's the same fatalistic story, just done technically better and improved here and there, to conform more accurately with what was always meant to be american tropes in the first place.

I'm excited for this! I saw the Sweedish one several times and, unfortunately, was a little disappointed by it. It was really jumpy and, though Noomi Rapace was amazing, the majority of the cast came off as extremely dull (not excluding the fact that all the female characters except Lisbeth were turned into shallow placeholders who's only point was to forward the story; no thoughts or perspectives or goals of their own). So yeah. I'm excited to see Fincher's play on it and hopeful that he won't ignore the ladies.

I have seen all three original movies, read he books, and am not a Fincher fanboy (Fight Club can suck it!), but aside from an odd tagline that seems better suited for Bad Santa 2, and the odd song choice, this trailer works for being a teaser. Maybe I'll hate the full length, maybe I won't, but this teaser did it's job. We are talking about the movie after all.

Trailer aside for the moment, that snipe about 'uniting foreign film snobs and your mom's book club' was juvenile and uncalled for. The original film was excellent, as are the books, and if you're mom's book club is reading it reading, then they're a pretty twisted book club (let's not forget the title character is graphically raped about a 3rd of the way through the book and the entire plot feels quite a bit like Se7en crossed with The Social Network). Just because people who are adults in more than just age think something is good doesn't mean it's bad. Grow up.

As for the trailer, it looks about like I'd expect it to, IE trying to dress it up to look like an action/thriller when it's really not. This happens fairly regularly to movies that are slower and/or more thoughtful (go watch the Source Code trailers to get what I mean) and so I tend to just ignore the trailers until the movie is closer to being out. Though it's very clearly riding heavily on the books popularity.

And speaking of juvenile, that tagline? 'The feel bad movie of Christmas.' Come on Fincher, I KNOW you're better than that.

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Bob is a part-time independent filmmaker, part-time amateur film critic and full time Movie Geek. He is heterosexual, a pisces, and a severely lapsed Catholic. He is a tireless enemy of censorship, considers his personal politics "Libertine" and enjoys acting as a full time irritant to overly serious people of ALL political stripes.